"Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon."

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Stef Penney

#Writing Quotes #Class Quotes #Long Quotes

“Your eyes will always go to red, which is why there is a lady in red in all my shows.”
“In addition to inviting us to hold personal and family scripture study, Heavenly Father wants us to regularly study and apply what we have learned in conference. I testify that those who put their trust in the Lord and heed this counsel in faith will gain great strength to bless themselves and their families for generations to come.”
“The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.”
“But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves--rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children.”

Source : "How To Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, 2011.
“What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.”

Source : Adelbert von Chamisso, Prosper Mérimée, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “3 great classics”
“I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.”

Source : "McCracken Had No Rock Doubts" by Eric R. Danton, The Hartford Courant, September 1, 2005.
“Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.”
“Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.”

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